I don't know what that number represents but it's not sites, if you look at the results on first page half of them are phpbb.com. Enclosing it in quotes gives you 24 million results and site:phpbb.com "powered by phpBB" gives you only 1K+ results. I would assume the results are what Google identifies as worthy of inclusion for that search.Obviously take this with a grain of salt, but da Google™ shows "about 7,730,000 results" with the words powered by phpBB.
Not sure where you would get accurate information but you would be able to get a fairly accurate number here by analyzing inbound traffic for the version check.
Statistics: Posted by thecoalman — Tue Mar 25, 2025 2:54 pm